We citizens put the country on our backs. We aren't the do nothing country, our politicians are the people who do nothing. Get it straight!
As citizens, we use to join force and use Washington to build things that no single business could afford. No collection of businesses had the incentive or the capital to build the Hoover Dam, which allowed us to harness the water & energy of the Colorado River in order to build the modern Southwest.
No single business in the sixties had the incentive or capital to build the Space Program.
Do you know the technology that came out of the Space Program? Do you know how the technology of the Space Program was used commercially - and the profits it enabled? Things like satellite technology came from citizens
using the financial power of
Washington to build things that no business or collection of businesses had the incentive or capital build.
Do you know how much profit the private sector has drawn from the satellite system and other technologies that came out of the Cold War Pentagon and NASA programs? We citizens controlled Washington and made it do great things - but your party convinced us that the Government could do nothing, so we gave up trying to make it do great things . . . as the donors of your party quietly built a lobbying empire and slithered quietly through the back door for subsidies and bailouts . . . and patent protection for their products . . . so that they could privately suck at the teat of big government and usurp all its resources as the commons and infrastructure withered. The tax payer spends trillions protecting Exxon's oil fields in Iraq as his schools and main street die. It was a ******* coup d'tat by the wealthy and you bought it.
The private sector gets trillions of dollars a year in subsidies, bailouts and regulatory favors (from patent protection to virtual monopolies over domestic sectors) ... and you don't see it, but if a dime goes to the middle class or the nation at large, it's called Socialism.
Son, you've been lied to.
The Reagan Revolution destroyed government so that a narrow group of Wealthy people could control all the country's resources. But it wasn't always like this. Indeed, our citizenry used the massive financial leverage of Washington to build a great nation. Great Presidents like Eisenhower put our veterans to work building infrastructure that would serve citizens and businesses for generations. Before Reagan's poisonous anti-government propoganda, Americans joined together and effectively
used Washington as a tool to defeat the Nazis, build the Interstate Highways, build water and energy plants across rural America, and basically create the modern industrial infrastructure upon which commerce and progress depends.
But your party found away to destroy all this and remove common citizens and public investment from Washington. Now, large corporations lobby behind closed doors in order to secure subsidies that only benefit a narrow group of investors. You didn't make government smaller, you only changed who it served.
America swallowed poison in 1980 and now the patient is almost dead.
(Here's the thing son. The businesses which taught you to hate Washington - the businesses which fund Conservative & Libertarian think tanks, talk radio and FOX - are sneaking through the back door in order to peel away trillions in lobbying "favors" from the taxpayer. The Koch Brothers don't hate government - they extract billions of dollars in subsidies a year for their various businesses, many of them in oil. Do you know what their lobbying footprint is in Washington? They only teach you to hate government in order to remove
you from the process so that they have more unrestricted access to the taxpayer's wallet. Your glorious ******* private sector - the pinnacle of Free Market Capitalism - is a lobbying machine which turned Washington into a private ATM for the wealthy. You've been lied to. They didn't make government smaller; they just changed who owns it and who benefits from it.)
